Senior Actuary - Regulatory Reporting - LMAL and LMIE

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Role Title: Senior Actuary - Regulatory Reporting - LMAL and LMIE

Department: Global Risk Solutions (GRS) Actuarial

Reporting Line: Dual Reporting to LMIE Head of Actuarial Function and LMAL Head of Actuarial Function Location: London Type: Permanent

About the Role

The Senior Actuary - Regulatory Reporting will be responsible for supporting the Legal Entity Heads of Actuarial

Function with oversight and reporting of all matters related to reserving for LMAL (Lloyd's Syndicate 4472) and LMIE (Luxembourg Company). They will work closely with the central reserving team and will have responsibility for ensuring the adequacy of reserves estimates on a US GAAP basis and other bases required by the legal entities. The role includes exposure to the UK and Luxembourg regulators, external auditors, and Board committee presentations.

The role will include line management of a small team and will be able to draw on support from the actuarial analyst pool in the reserving team.

About the Department & Team:

The Actuarial Function evaluates business performance and provides the management of the business units (Liberty International Insurance (LII) and Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LMRe)) and Legal Entities (LMAL and LMIE) with a clear, risk-based view for making decisions on business strategy and risk mitigation. The department covers all aspects of actuarial work including pricing, reserving, business planning, and capital, and supports exposure management and reinsurance purchasing. The team operates on a global basis with around ninety actuaries, of which around sixty are based in the UK. The Actuarial Function comprises the following core teams

• Business Actuarial Team: business partners to underwriting and aligned business functions, responsible for pricing, business planning and premium risk parameterisation. The team is supported by centralised data, analytics, modelling, reporting and risk governance infrastructure who support on key strategic priorities, including delivering new pricing models on leading-edge platforms as part of the wider underwriting transformation.
• Reserving Team : responsible for actuarial reserving analysis across LII and LMRe businesses providing a transparent and independent view of business performance through consistently applied reserving best practice. Acting as independent trusted advisors to the business, the team is responsible for objectively communicating the quarterly reserve analyses with insight and confidence.
• Actuarial Modelling Team : maintains and develops the Internal Model for capital assessment and solvency reporting requirements of LII and LMRe's regulated legal entities.
• Regulatory Reporting Team : responsible for delivering all regulatory requirements relating to reserving. This includes all internal and external reporting at a Legal Entity level, completion of Actuarial Function reporting and calculation and ownership of the Solvency II Technical Provisions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day management and responsibility for ensuring all regulatory requirements relating to reserving are met for LMAL and LMIE.
• Monitoring and review of legal entity reserve development relating to the quarterly roll forward, non-cat deep dive reserve reviews and cat reserving, in particular, monitoring and review of Surety reserve developments.
• Draft and present the quarterly and annual reserving performance papers to the Legal Entity Board committees of LMAL and LMIE.
• Oversee and review the calculation and governance of the quarterly and annual Solvency II Technical Provisions for LMAL and LMIE.
• Oversee and review the completion of the Actuarial Function reporting on the Technical Provisions for LMAL and LMIE.
• Monitor and make Actuarial Function recommendations to drive continuous improvement.
• Oversee and review the completion of other regulatory reporting including:
• For LMAL: SAO report
• For LMIE: quarterly memos to the CAA, UK branch reporting
• Oversee and review successful delivery of regulatory returns for LMAL and LMIE including the actuarial input into the following returns: For LMAL: QMB, QSR, TPD, QMA, GQD, Trust Funds
• For LMIE: NAIC return (Trust Funds).
• As required, take appropriate action to enable the effective response to regulatory enquiry and challenge to reserve estimates.
• Support the successful delivery of the statutory audits of LMAL and LMIE.
• Potential involvement in special projects which contribute to the overall success of the actuarial team and relating to the strategicobjectives of the legal entities.
• Seek opportunities to continuously improve processes.
• Keep abreast of new reserving methodologies, technologies, trends, emerging risks and other external issues.
• Be an inclusive leader committed to mentoring and developing team members.
• Undertake your role with due regard to the prescribed responsibilities and regulatory requirements associated with the Actuarial Function - which may require undertaking appropriate learning & development.
• Oversee and contribute to the ongoing maintenance and fostering of a healthy culture.
• Adherence to all relevant regulatory requirements forms part of your role, and the demonstration of behaviours as set out in the Conduct Risk Policy, as they relate to your role, is core to Liberty Values, placing customers at the centre of our business and behaving with integrity. The company expects you to understand your responsibilities relating to all regulatory and internal requirements, and to proactively demonstrate compliance with these requirements and behaviours at all times. These requirements include the Senior Managers and Certification Regime Conduct Rules, Solvency II, fair treatment of customers, Financial Crime, Data Protection, Conflicts of Interest, and Whistleblowing.

Skills and Experience:

• Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (or equivalent).
• London Market reserving experience with a broad knowledge of specialty (re)insurance portfolios.
• Experience in calculating or reviewing Solvency II Technical Provisions.
• Track record of building trusted relationships with business leaders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. An ability to communicate technical actuarial concepts to a wide range of audiences including experience presenting to senior management.
• Adheres to the highest standards of personal and professional integrity.
• An inclusive leader with a keen interest in developing diverse talent and succession planning.
• Collaborative in nature and adaptive to change, handling ambiguity.
• Ability to work through periods of change and transformation.

About Liberty International Insurance (LII) and Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LMRe)

LII and LMRe are part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, a leading global insurer. We offer a breadth of worldclass insurance and reinsurance services to brokers and insureds in all major markets.

Our people are key to our success. That is why "Put People First" is one of the five Liberty values which unite us as a global organisation. We bring this to life for our colleagues through:

• Offering a vibrant and inclusive environment and committing to their career development.

• Promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Our Inclusion Matters framework and employee-led networks strengthen the diversity of our workforce and our inclusive environment.

• Reinforcing that collaborating together to share our unique perspectives help us make better decisions, deliver innovative solutions and pursue our ambitious goals.

• A supportive culture, which includes promoting a healthy work-life balance and working flexibly.